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Pharmacy bottle (one of a pair)

ca. 1500–1510
Not on view
The Latin mottos "Virtue always burns" and "Virtue has no value if one has no faith" may relate to the bottles’ owner, whose coat of arms appears between the inscriptions. Prominent labels indicate that the vessels (see also 02.5.59) once held extracts of wood bettony and maidenhair fern.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Pharmacy bottle (one of a pair)
  • Date: ca. 1500–1510
  • Culture: Italian, Deruta
  • Medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)
  • Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 17 3/8 × 10 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (44.1 × 26.7 × 26.7 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics-Pottery
  • Credit Line: Gift of William B. Osgood Field, 1902
  • Object Number: 02.5.58
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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Pharmacy bottle (one of a pair), Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), Italian, Deruta
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Italian, Deruta
ca. 1500–1510
Bowl with The Virgin and the Unicorn and arms of Matthias Corvinus and Beatrice of Aragon, Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), Italian, Pesaro
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Italian, Pesaro
probably ca. 1486–88
Bottle (Refredador), Tin-glazed and luster-painted earthenware, Spanish, Valencia
Bottle (Refredador)
Spanish, Valencia
first half 16th century
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Pharmacy jar (albarello)
Giacomo Mancini, "El Frate"
dated 1573
Plate with arms of the Tosinghi family, Unknown Artist working in Tuscany, Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), lustered, Italian, Deruta
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